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When Everybody Is a White Supremacist
For a long time, liberals have been accusing conservatives of being conspiracy theorists. Say anything about Hunter Biden, and you're a conspiracy theorist. Urge Andrew Cuomo to resign, and you're a conspiracy theorist.
Now it's worse. Conservatives aren't just conspiracy theorists; they're white supremacists. Like those who defend Georgia's voting reforms designed to protect the integrity of the election. Or any person or business that lives or operates in Georgia. For the left, anyone associated with a bill designed to prevent voter fraud, and so deny Democrats permanent power, is a white supremacist.
It's easy to charge someone with being a white supremacist because it's difficult to prove a negative. Once charged, if charged often enough, the charge may stick even if baseless. In a 2019 poll, 57% of Americans agreed that President Trump is a white supremacist or emboldened them. What "embolden" meant in that context is not clear. The media worked overtime to establish this idea in the minds of the public, and now they're using the same rhetoric to attack opponents of the Biden administration
As Orwell understood, such rhetoric can be effective. Create a lie and repeat it often enough, and it comes to seem as if it were true. Orwell was correct in his belief that "in our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing" — with the exception, he said, of those rebels, including many conservatives, who express their own honest opinions outside the "party line."
As Orwell realized early on, the political language of the left relies on vague charges and deliberate obfuscation. What better, in our own time, than the vague charge of white supremacy? Most everyone would agree that white supremacy is a bad thing, but the fact is that there are few white supremacists around. So charging someone with white supremacy without a basis in fact is a grave error — a crime, actually (slander or libel). And yet, for many liberals, attacking opponents with white supremacist rhetoric is the equivalent of saying, "I don't like you."
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For a long time, liberals have been accusing conservatives of being conspiracy theorists. Say anything about Hunter Biden, and you're a conspiracy theorist. Urge Andrew Cuomo to resign, and you're a conspiracy theorist.
Now it's worse. Conservatives aren't just conspiracy theorists; they're white supremacists. Like those who defend Georgia's voting reforms designed to protect the integrity of the election. Or any person or business that lives or operates in Georgia. For the left, anyone associated with a bill designed to prevent voter fraud, and so deny Democrats permanent power, is a white supremacist.
It's easy to charge someone with being a white supremacist because it's difficult to prove a negative. Once charged, if charged often enough, the charge may stick even if baseless. In a 2019 poll, 57% of Americans agreed that President Trump is a white supremacist or emboldened them. What "embolden" meant in that context is not clear. The media worked overtime to establish this idea in the minds of the public, and now they're using the same rhetoric to attack opponents of the Biden administration
As Orwell understood, such rhetoric can be effective. Create a lie and repeat it often enough, and it comes to seem as if it were true. Orwell was correct in his belief that "in our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing" — with the exception, he said, of those rebels, including many conservatives, who express their own honest opinions outside the "party line."
As Orwell realized early on, the political language of the left relies on vague charges and deliberate obfuscation. What better, in our own time, than the vague charge of white supremacy? Most everyone would agree that white supremacy is a bad thing, but the fact is that there are few white supremacists around. So charging someone with white supremacy without a basis in fact is a grave error — a crime, actually (slander or libel). And yet, for many liberals, attacking opponents with white supremacist rhetoric is the equivalent of saying, "I don't like you."
When Everybody Is a White Supremacist
For a long time, liberals have been accusing conservatives of being conspiracy theorists. Say anything about Hunter Biden, and you're a conspiracy theorist. Urge Andrew Cuomo to resign, and you're a conspiracy theorist. ...
